Friday, July 16, 2010

Treasure Hunt Reading!

To change our reading up a little bit, I decided to create a treasure hunt for my 4 year old. It took maybe 3 minutes to do :) I wrote out simple instructions like "Go to Mom's bed" "Go to the fish" etc. At the end, she had to find a cup in the kitchen with her surprise in it. She had a few M&M's in hers, but you could put some yummy fruit or marshmallows or even a smoothie in it. She was so excited to find every clue, she was shaking with excitement as she picked up each paper and then squealed with delight after reading each one. You can make them more complicated depending on their reading level and even make fun riddles. Just a fun way to show kids all the ways reading comes in handy :)

I'm sure everyone has done a treasure hunt, but here is how we did it. For the set-up, write out 5-10 clues. Start with an original clue ("Go to Mom's bed"), then put the next clue at mom's bed (maybe the clue on mom's bed says "Go to the car") so then the next clue would be on the car and so on. The very last clue leads to the treasure :)

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Ginny

I am the grandmother. I have five adult children that I homeschooled. I have 22 1/8 grandchildren. My three daughters homeschool their children. I live in Texas and none of my children live near us. So I teach Spanish classesto some of my grandchildren over the phone and internet. I love to teach Spanish so I teach groups of homeschooled children here also. I love to teach young children to read. I have taught eleven of my grandchildren to read. I alsolove teaching writing and am teaching some writing classes to homeschoolers here this year. In fact, I love teaching almost anything.

Tati

I am the youngest in our family. I was homeschooled until I went to 10th grade public school. I graduated from Brigham Young University in Elementary Education. I plan on homeschooling my children in both English and Spanish.